Zephyr

Zephyr is an attempt at creating a stack for use by other projects to be exploring lightweight, high-performance, next-generation UIs based on Mer, Qt5, QML compositor and Wayland. Come to #mer on irc.freenode.net to discuss and participate.

Kickstart files

TODO

VirtualBox/X86 QML compositor needs to wait properly for input devices and framebuffer devices to appear before launching and sometimes fails to start compositor 3-4 times

Get Harmattan QML components working on Qt5

Integrate Maliit on Qt5

Architecture

Zephyr is based on the Mer Core. It boots with the help of systemd user sessions. The user session is described in zephyr-session package and it launches the Zephyr compositor (based on example QML compositor from qt-wayland). The Zephyr compositor signals to systemd that it has started and wayland clients can connect to it.

Adaptation: VirtualBox

You can make a 'livecd' image (mic cr livecd -A i686 zephyr-i586-vm.ks in Platform SDK) that you can run on a virtual machine.

You will need to make a virtual machine and run this:

VBoxManage setextradata "Mer" CustomVideoMode1 "800x480x16"

before starting first time, here "Mer" is the name of your virtual machine. Set this to your desired resolution.